News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-24
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

There are six lady medical students in
Edinburgh College.
Miss Alice R. Jordan, LII. D., of Yale,
is only twenty-three.
The colleges of this country contain
200 female students.
A man in Polk County, Georgia, is
living pleasantly with his eighth wife.
A new process of deodorizing furs
makes certain kinds much more desir-
able
A fashionable wedding present is a
door-plate with the bridegroom's name
on it.
The census of 1880 showed there were
4,779 Chinese women and girls in the
United States.
In Paris there are 400, 900 unmarried
men and only $50, 900 married, while
there are 416, 900 unmarried women.
Coston signal lights used on the trans
| Atlantic steamers are the invention of a
| woman, who has made something of a
| fortune.
The dark-eyed Senoras and Senoritas
who patronize the great Talon Theatre,
at Havana, wear flowers upon their heads
instead of chimney pot hats.
The Danes assure maidens, upon pay
ment OF an annual sum, of a comfortable
home at a certain age. The benefits of
the association cease at marriage.
Washington young ladies love to go
marketing, and it is said that the idea
gained favor from the fact that a Senator
once met his future bride that way.
Old earrings which were worn by
Duchesses and other grand ladies who
lived in former times and used as pend
ants on black ribbon is the latest fad.
An order has been received by firm in
Lyons, France, from London, for 2, $780,
600 handkerchiefs with Queen Nictoria's
picture on them for the occasion of her
golden jubilee"
Whistling is very much in demand in
Boston. A certain pretty girl who is said
to have "a charming mouth for whistling'
is making rather good little income,
whistling for private parties
Five young women are studying in the
law department in Michigan University
this year. One of them is the daughter
of prominent lawyer in the Sandwich
Islands. She intends to practice her pro-
fession in her native land.
Miss Kate Dickson, the daughter of a
wealthy Pittsburg coal operator, who has
Just married Robert Downing, the Comp
trOller of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is
handsome and accomplish |
ed, while her husband is sixty-tive.
Among the novel toilets worn by la
dies at a recent Washington reception |
was a white dress worn by an Admiral's |
daughter, the front of which was hung |
with golden bells, and another was EN- |
broidered with flight of golden swal-
lows
Miss Augusta Klumpke, of California, |
Who is a student of medicine at the Paris |
Medical School, has just been appointed |
house surgeon in the hospitals of that city. |
This is the first instance of woman re-
9elving this honor, and it was won in the
lace of the most bitter opposition.
1t is gossiped that the string of pearls
'ecently worn at the opera in New York
~ Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt attracted
great attention. 1t consists of 346 orr
,ntal pearls, set in golden chain, which
belonged to the Empress Eugene, and
which was recently purchased for $780,,
100.
Patti was recently dining, when some
me COmplimented her because of her
mouth" said she, laughing, land as large
IS you please'-proving her assertion by
losing her teeth over a large boiled egg
II the shell, removing it a second after
ward unbroken.
They have a curious way of settling
disputes in Nepaul, India.
On plain is a standard. When wife
wants a divorce from her husband she is
given Il fair start and has to run across
the plain. Her better half chases her
with kookree. If the woman reaches
the standard first, she Obtains a dissoIu- |
ton of her marriage. ff she doesn't get
TO the post at all, it is because her hus-
band has caught her and cut her down.
The New York Nail and Express says:
The head of one of the great drygoods
firms was asked the other day if he could
give any idea of the yearly aggregates of
the bill o. his heaviest customers. TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars, he said, one
had spent with him within
and several others had
grown poorer to the extent of $40, 900 or
S15, 900. Thirty thousand dollars is not
unheard of as the price of the dress and
toilet equipments of an extravagant city's
DANES.
AT many of the weddings lately French
brides have adopted a fashion which is
always followed by royal ladies in Eng
land, viz: To wear the veil off the face
They do not fasten it so often with dia-
nonds as in England, but two bands of
orange blossoms now frequently keep it
in place. Lace, especially old lace,
never shows better than on pale yellow
satin. Pink wooden gowns, trimmed
with velvet, are much worn by young
people, velvet being the one fabric which
IS most employed for trimmings of all
kinds, whether it be in simple galoons OF
perforated ones, outlined with gold, or
mere bands.